Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 606 806
Rank change year-on-year -28 +200 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 97 50 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 65 32 68
10th Percentile £57,750 - £54,250
25th Percentile £68,500 £64,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £87,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 86,286 38,345 92,039
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 89.33% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 57,161 21,611 67,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.17%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -24 89 £71,250 -8.06% 14
London -10 67 £80,000 - 13
Work from Home +25 29 £80,000 +25.00% 8
UK excluding London -21 27 £70,000 +16.67% 6
North of England -26 12 £66,250 +10.42%
Yorkshire -36 9 £70,000 +16.67%
Northern Ireland - 4 £75,000 - 4
East of England -13 3 £71,250 - 1
South East -33 3 £85,000 +36.00% 1
Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
North East - 2 £52,000 -
Scotland - 2 £74,283 -
North West -4 1 £80,000 +33.33%
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 -

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 May 2026, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) Python
2 38 (39.18%) AWS
3 30 (30.93%) AI
3 30 (30.93%) Test Automation
4 23 (23.71%) Software Engineering
5 21 (21.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (20.62%) Linux
6 20 (20.62%) OO
6 20 (20.62%) OOP
7 19 (19.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 19 (19.59%) C++
7 19 (19.59%) Low Latency
7 19 (19.59%) Order Management
8 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (17.53%) Flask
9 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
10 15 (15.46%) Agile
11 12 (12.37%) React
11 12 (12.37%) RESTful
12 11 (11.34%) Generative AI
13 10 (10.31%) Azure
13 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (10.31%) Intelligent Automation
13 10 (10.31%) Product Vision
13 10 (10.31%) Resource Allocation
13 10 (10.31%) SaaS
13 10 (10.31%) SDLC
14 9 (9.28%) FastAPI
14 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (9.28%) Serverless

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.18%) AWS
2 10 (10.31%) Azure
2 10 (10.31%) SaaS
3 9 (9.28%) Serverless
4 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (5.15%) GitHub
6 3 (3.09%) Azure AI
6 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.03%) GCP
8 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Broadband
2 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.03%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) GIS
6 1 (1.03%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Git
1 3 (3.09%) GitLab
1 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 25 (25.77%) Finance
2 19 (19.59%) Front Office
3 10 (10.31%) Health Technology
4 8 (8.25%) Tech for Good
5 7 (7.22%) Games
6 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.19%) Social Skills
7 4 (4.12%) Publishing
8 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 17 (17.53%) Flask
3 12 (12.37%) React
3 12 (12.37%) RESTful
4 9 (9.28%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.19%) Django
6 5 (5.15%) Swagger
6 5 (5.15%) Vue
7 4 (4.12%) HTML
7 4 (4.12%) Node.js
8 3 (3.09%) CSS
8 3 (3.09%) NumPy
8 3 (3.09%) Pandas
8 3 (3.09%) REST
8 3 (3.09%) SQLAlchemy
9 2 (2.06%) Ajax
9 2 (2.06%) boto
9 2 (2.06%) Jinja
9 2 (2.06%) jQuery
9 2 (2.06%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.71%) Algorithms
1 23 (23.71%) Cloud Native
2 20 (20.62%) Data Structures
3 19 (19.59%) Equities
3 19 (19.59%) Hedge funds
3 19 (19.59%) Management Information System
4 15 (15.46%) Educational Technology
5 10 (10.31%) PropTech
6 7 (7.22%) Low-Code
6 7 (7.22%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (4.12%) NHS
9 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (2.06%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (1.03%) Derivative
10 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.62%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) AI
1 30 (30.93%) Test Automation
2 23 (23.71%) Software Engineering
3 21 (21.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (20.62%) OO
4 20 (20.62%) OOP
5 19 (19.59%) Low Latency
5 19 (19.59%) Order Management
6 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
8 15 (15.46%) Agile
9 11 (11.34%) Generative AI
10 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (10.31%) Intelligent Automation
10 10 (10.31%) Product Vision
10 10 (10.31%) Resource Allocation
10 10 (10.31%) SDLC
11 8 (8.25%) API Design
11 8 (8.25%) Machine Learning
11 8 (8.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (19.59%) C++
3 7 (7.22%) Go
3 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.12%) SQL
4 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.03%) Bash
5 1 (1.03%) Bicep
5 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
1 2 (2.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.03%) Databricks